Sheba Intelligence identifies five Chinese-origin or Chinese-designed UAV platforms displayed by Yemen’s Nation Shield Forces, pointing to an emerging layered capability for reconnaissance, targeting, fire support and battlefield logistics. Sheba Intelligence | Investigati...
Jewellery and a dagger reportedly offered inside Yemen, a throne in a French museum and two statues before Swiss courts reveal a trade that extends beyond auction catalogues. Before Yemeni antiquities appear behind museum glass or on international auction platfo...
Amphetamine seizures nearly tripled in a year as Saudi authorities intercepted 3.6 million pills and 141 tonnes of drugs and qat. The figures also expose the growing intersection between narcotics, Yemen’s war economy and migrant-smuggling routes. Saudi Ar...
From the SIBU 1 hijacking to Houthi restrictions on Israeli-, US-, UK- and Saudi-linked shipping, Sheba Intelligence traces how overlapping threats are reshaping maritime security from the Somali coast to Bab al-Mandab. The hijacking of the tanker SIBU 1&...
Sheba Intelligence identifies the UAVs previously presented as “Aiban” and “Nuqm” as SKYWASP long-range attack drones supplied to government forces through coalition military support. Sheba Intelligence has identified a...
A new class of combat drone has appeared in the Houthi arsenal, adding a tactical capability that could reshape fighting along Yemen’s active frontlines. On August 11, 2026, Yemeni government forces in Marib recovered an FPV drone reportedly operated by the H...
Editor’s Note: This investigation builds on Sheba Intelligence’s earlier investigation, “Drones Reshape Yemen’s Battlefield: Artillery Eyes and Strategic Firepower on the Saada Border,” which examined how government forces are using tactical drones fo...
Video footage from Marib, Al-Dhale, the western coast, and Saada reveals a gradual shift in the Yemeni army’s use of unmanned aerial systems—from conventional reconnaissance to artillery fire control and precision strikes. Analysis of the footage, supported by mi...
Flight records reveal a durable civilian corridor between Dubai and Hargeisa. Viewed alongside Emirati-controlled port infrastructure, reported military construction in Berbera and new coastal logistics preparations, the route forms part of a broader network that has strengthened Somalil...
An investigation into a cross-border cycle in which commercial supply chains feed Houthi weapons production in Yemen, while arms, training and maritime networks generate money, recruits and strategic footholds across the Horn of Africa The Houthis no ...
In late May, security authorities in Hadramout, eastern Yemen, announced the dismantling of four illegal gold mining and processing workshops in the city of Mukalla, only one week after a similar workshop had been seized. The Criminal Investigation Department of Hadr...
Since the early 1990s, Yemen has been a safe haven for refugees from East African countries, particularly Ethiopia and Somalia. For these refugees, Yemen is not just a transit bridge to Saudi Arabia, as UN reports suggest, but a country where they can work freely or see...
Introduction: Yemen is grappling with a disturbing rise in rape cases, transforming what were once rare and isolated incidents into a pervasive threat to the social fabric. The situation is particularly alarming as many victims are minors and children. Areas controlled by the Ho...
A plan is being pursued by the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and the Abu Dhabi Ports Group to run the Port of Aden jointly. The head of the STC, Aidrous Al-Zubaidi, issued a letter dated June 12, 2024, to Yemen's prime minister, stating that a committee is discussing ...
A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone went down in Yemen's Marib on Wednesday, marking the sixth American drone downed in Yemen since November last year. Sheba Intelligence obtained video footage showing the entire fuselage of the drone in a desert region as if it was not a missile that had hit the dr...
On March 14, the Russian "Novosti" news agency quoted a military source close to the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group in Yemen that the group conducted a test of a hypersonic missile that runs on solid fuel and that it will be used in attacks on the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, th...
As warnings of a U.S.-Russia clash rose after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden warned on March 21, 2022, that Russia was "considering attacks on critical US infrastructure." One of the scenarios that has been put forward since th...
The Iranians began planning to reap the fruits of the war in Yemen in terms of economic and military benefits. One of these fruits is establishing a free economic zone on the Red Sea coast in the Ras Issa area of Al-Hudaydah. The Iranian vision that the Houthi group seeks to implement con...
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) admitted for the first time on February 17 that the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group, which is listed as a terrorist organization, had attacked the American forces with an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV). Sheba Intelligence tra...
In a previous report by Sheba Intelligence, it was revealed that there are indications that the Houthi group's offensive capabilities have been affected as a result of the U.S.-UK strikes which began after the Houthis targeted ships in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian S...
